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>> ♪ >> kids put together their ravens music video. we will share that with you in a little bit. good morning, washington. i am cynne simpson. >> i am scott thuman. great to have you along as sweepin -- as we end the workweek. we are on storm watch. let's get to jacqui jeras. >> not much coming down. that's the main thing. if unfortunately, it has more to do with timing than anything.everybody trying to get to work as this will be coming down. this is at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis. the white stuff is snow on the dockside. the doppler radar shows where there is snow. a lot of it has been to the south of the beltway a, creeping in and around alexandria and everybody south and east of

there. to and from front royal leesburg and alexandria and we could pick up a dusting. winter weather advisory with potential to an inch. very cold temperatures in the low 30's to our 20s this morning. meteorologist adam caskey is in the snowflakes this morning with your express forecast. iciness snowflakes on your shoulders. it's i wore my black jacket to help you see the snow. it's on the grassy services and parked cars on woodbrige road. notice how you can see the big fat snowflakes falling pretty easily this morning with this little band of moving through woodbrige. now let's come back down to the surface. this is a parking lot, so it does not really see any traffic. this particular spot in general. it is not sticking in this parking lot. the roads i've been traveling on in woodbrige since the snowflakes began are mainly just

wet, but the grass is turning white as well as the cars. you will notice accumulation on the cars, investing so far. becoming partly cloudy for the rest of the day. just snowfall this morning with a dusting possible in a fraction of an inch in spots. it will be cold and windy. now to steve for the commute. >> accident in montgomery county on perry brockway pkwy at 355. the intersection is still blocked. in springfield in has been snowing for a while. just the usual amount of volume from dale city to the springfield interchange and on to 395 up to and across the 14th street bridge. back to you. >> thank you. there will be some issues for about the next year-and-a-half.

it will affect your evening commute. >> it can be daunting at first. the 11th street bridge project and has been under way. now you will really feel the effect this afternoon and it could be tough on the way home. let's get to brianne carter. >> something to watch for if you will be headed out of the city later today during the evening. just ahead of the eighth street section is where we are. the ramp to pennsylvania avenue will be closed for 18 months as part of a larger project to improve traffic at downtown. the eastbound southeast southwest freeway section has been closed connecting you to pennsylvania avenue. the closure is expected to last anywhere from 18 months to 20 months. drivers heading out of the city

today, you need to use the 695 outbound bridge in order to connect. brianne carter. >> floodwaters starting to recede in laurel, maryland, but some residents are upset. the washington suburban sanitary commission decided to open the floodgates on the patuxent river, flooding parts of laurel. the utility said it had to do is to protect the integrity of the dam, but officials say it should never been done before several inches of rain fell, not afterwards. looking at the day ahead. a decision on possible juror misconduct expected today from the judge presiding over the culpeper police officer murder case. the jury convicted daniel harmon-wright tuesday for shooting and killing patricia cook. that night, court officials found two dictionaries and a thesaurus in the jury room, which violated the judge's instructions. that lead defense attorneys to

argue for a mistrial. >> today's hillary clinton's last day as secretary of state. she will address state department employees before saying goodbye. she visited 112 countries and blocked nearly 1 million miles during four year tenure. kerry will be sworn in later today. mike allen will join us at 6:45 to discuss what the future holds for mrs. clinton. there's still plenty of time to place your bets on a super bowl winner. it's the game is two days away. everyone has an opinion. john gonzalez went looking for positions. he's joining us live from new orleans this morning. >> good morning. believe it or not, this morning the party is still going in the french quarter. we spent a lot of time this week talking to players and fans but who the streets of bourbon street say will win. part 49 errors. >> ♪

>> the ravens. >> along can you stay like this? >> forever. >> to the big winner? >> definitely the 49ers. >> ravens or forty-niners? >> forty-niners. >> ravens. >> ravens. >> go ravens. baltimore ravens. >> you can tell the future ravens or forty-niners? >> forty-niners. >> ravens. ♪ going to win the super bowl ♪ >> santa claus on bourbon street. i will say the forty-niners. >> ♪ [jazz music playing] ♪

>> santa claus says that he hopes ray lewis is not on is not the list -- his naughty list this christmas. ravens fans outnumbered the 49ers fans by about 4 to 1 in the french quarter. >> ravens fans willing to travel for our team. >> that is impressive. those are some good numbers from that study. >> abc 7 walks you through the the ravens road to new orleans with a special at 8:00 tonight. still ahead a scare in the skies. a pilot francs just short after takeoff and forces the point make an emergency landing. it's 34 degrees 6:08.

we are looking at frederick rd and looking at it germantown. we

>> welcome back. 6:11. in germantown, you can see where the snow is accumulating on the road. this is frederick rd. and senate avenue. click on big snowflakes are. >> a few places starting to come down. a few of us are in that little hole. george in gaithersburg says it

is starting to come down really heavy at this time. let's show you doppler radar. the good news for today is that you are going to see this move through pretty quickly. by 10:00 this morning is out of there. look at a big hole in d.c. i have not seen any snow flurries yet in rosslyn. 270 towards caper, a heavy band, stretching towards 66, warrenton beginning to wind down, coming down pretty good in stafford stretching towards dunkirk and into annapolis. you can seem it stretches from our area down through the carolinas, just kind of misses atlanta. it will still be windy if you are traveling today. a live picture of atlanta, 39 degrees. they will likely see snow showers if the moisture moves south. there's a been a delay in atlanta, new york city boston,

and philadelphia. -- a wind delay in atlanta and new york city and boston and philadelphia. >> if we have an accidenwhere we had an accident on 355 near lake forest at the parkway, the accident has been towed away and the lanes are open. police have left the scene. look at the snow on the ground. give yourself extra time. springfield looks ok with the usual amount of volume from dale city to springfield, pretty good. we have a closure of the freeway headed on to pennsylvania avenue. back to you. >> thank you. 4434 degrees. global winemakers are targeting the u.s. market. >> and nasa plans to honor astronauts lost 10 years ago

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> welcome back. an alaska airlines flight makes an emergency landing after the pilot lost consciousness in the cockpit. airline officials say the flight originated in los angeles. somewhere over oregon, the pilot passed out. he eventually regained consciousness and was cared for

by a doctor on the plane while the co-pilot should charge -- the start of the emergency landing. in alabama, swat team san hostage negotiators continue communicating with a man holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in a bunker. if police don't believe the man harm to the point was separate from autism. they say that he has been allowed to have medicine, coloring books, and a tv. standoff started on tuesday when a man shot and killed a school bus driver and then took the child. >> there's a ceremony being held at the kennedy space center today by nasa. six americans and the first israeli astronauts died when the space shuttle columbia is grandisintegrated. nasa will also honor the astronauts killed in the apollo and the challenger disasters. >> rescuers in mexico city

searching for survivors after a deadly explosion at an oil company building. at least 25 people killed, more than 100 others injured in the blast at mexico's state-owned oil company. three-fourths are damaged. mexico's attorney general's office is searching for the cost. in central china, a truck carrying fireworks ahead of chinese new year celebrations exploded this morning. blast destroyed part of an elevated highway, sending vehicles plummeting 100 feet to the ground. china state tv network reports eight confirmed deaths, but that number is likely to rise. >> vice-president joe biden is on his way to munich germany for a security conference, joining the other world leaders andin discussions on the fighting in mali and syria and iran. it's a rather informal setting.

time for us to talk about a lot of action on the weather front. school closings and delays scrolling at the top of your screen. >> we are starting to see accumulations on the roads. scarce everywhere except for rosslyn and the district. but it is coming. -- it is snowing everywhere except for rosslyn and the district. meteorologist adam caskey is in woodbrige this morning. some big fat snowflakes. >> yes, but the heaviest band has moved through. so it is lighter off old bridge road and gordon boulevard. you can really see the size of the snowflakes. they have gotten a little smaller than 30 minutes ago. but it is not quite as strong in general. still breezy and the wind is

picking up. it's not sticking to the ground here in the parking lot. on the grassy services, it is. the roadways should be ok around here in this part of woodbrige with treatment. there's a coating of snow on the cars. you will need a tool like this to brush this fluffy and snow off your car. the wind is picking up. it will be gusty and cold today. the snow will last just through the morning. the rest of the day we will have some sunshine. for more details and a look at live super doppler 7, let's go inside. >> is its sticky? or is it light and fluffy? >> it is kind of a combination. the bottom is a little sticky. the stuff on top is puffy. you know how snowflakes change their route to an event. these are changing and you can

see it firsthand. thanks so much. a live picture from annapolis, maryland at the u.s. naval academy. you can see snow starting to respect. use caution. 270 getting covered in snow, towards rockville and gaithersburg, and because the starting to get a little. and here is the whole -- hole. the district getting not much more than salaries. it's going to be coming down. here's the extent of the snowfall, stretching from delmarva into the carolinas. it is a quick moving system. this will be out of here by 9:00 or so. the winter weather advisory is fruntil 10:00 for up to an inch of snow. 34 degrees is your temperature right now, dew point at 27, wind out of the west at 8 miles an hour. the wind will pick up this

afternoon. it's 28 degrees in dulles and gaithersburg. there's a picture at dulles airport of parking lots getting covered in snow, someone sent me that. your body feels a wind chill in the teens and 20s. you need a hat and gloves this morning. cold air extends down to the south and will stay in place through a good part of the weekend. saturday night into sunday there will be snow again and not trained. we have a better chance of getting accumulations them. -- saturday night and sunday morning, snow and not rain. tomorrow, it's groundhog's day 35 degrees for the high temperature. warming up a little after morning snow showers on sunday afternoon. the weekend is upon us. we want to know how the votes are doing. some of them are getting covered especially on lon270.

>> you can see there is snow on the side of the roads and in between the lanes. it's getting heavy from germantown as far as traffic but no accidents or incidents even in the separate conditions on 270. today is the first day of the long-term work zone on the eastbound southeast southwest freeway. you cannot get any farther than 295. the ramp to and giving avenue is closed. that will be in place for year- and-a-half. in springfield, still moving. not much different from the usual pattern. noaa incidents on 95 or 395 up to and across the 14th street bridge. -- no incidents. back to you. >> thank you. we will hear from the labor department about the january jobs picture today. >> absolutely. one thing we know is americans are working later in life.

sunny hostin has more. >> good morning. even before this morning's gingrich jobs report, payroll company 80 pieces private employers added 192,000 jobs last month. that's better than much of last year. a new study says almost 2/43 of american's plan to delay their retirement. that's more than a few years ago. the reasons our financial losses layoffs, and income stagnation, in short, recession. millions of bottles of triaminic syrup and theraflu

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for the super bowl. >> very true. >> baltimore ravens fans back here, they are showing support. >> ♪ baltimore is on top we will not stop the fight until we see we it ♪ >> the rockville raven maniacs made this video/ they should be proud. >> absolutely. rocking out. very nice. tossing a football around a little. i love the effort. it's 32 degrees. another half-hour still ahead. >> snow is falling in our area. let's take a look outside. this is conditions in gaithersburg. jacqui jeras will tell us when it will stop and what to expect after it's gone. >> and we're measuring super bowl fan support in new orleans ahead

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sunday. good morning to you washington, it is friday, february 1. gray >> to have you along at the end of the work week but we are beginning with snow. >> it is finally coming down in the district. it has been holding off all morning. you can see it from silver spring alexander. s has been getting snow for a while and it is heavier along 66. we can expect to pick up a dusting. it could be up to 1 inch but that will be an exception. we have a winter weather advisory in effect for the metro area for the potential through 10:00 but i think most of it will be out of your three hours from now or less. 27 degrees is the wind chill in d.c. and 14 is the wind chill at dulles greet it will be blustery but we will see sunshine before the day is done.

let's go to traffic. >> 270 at 109 is not too bad. farther down to 70, you will find delays from 118 down to the lady bug. -- down to the lane divided. '95 looks like it usually does, heavy in the hov lanes. it looks like it is heavier than you would expect in the express lanes heading up to springfield. >> 6:32 -- we have been showing you some of our live pictures around the area and some -- and snow is starting to come down. >> especially in virginia. let's look at what is happening out there. >> we are getting some of our

first pictures into the newsroom. this picture came in from somebody who was at the dulles parking lot. the snow was piling up on the cars. there are white out conditions on the ground. according to the fairfax county fire department, in virginia, in the chantilly area, it is just some snow flurries but the farther west you go, down route 50 south writing to middleburg, we've got even more snow. there is a huge difference west of fairfax and the snowplows are having trouble keeping up. we have a picture coming in from the south riding area on route 50. you can see in south riding, it is a white out on the street.

if you are out there, keep it safe leaving the house this morning. >> thank you so much. this is just in -- a political iconic figure, former new york mayor ed koch has passed away. he served three terms in the york and is credited with helping steer new york city out of high-tech -- a potential financial ruin and was known for his very outspoken terms and attitude in new york. we have just confirmed that at age 88, ed koch is dead from congestive heart failure. >> let's continue to look at what is happening on the roads. this is a problem that will affect the evening commute. >> the southeast freeway is seeing a lot of changes over the next year. let's go to brianne carter.

>> the wind and snow could affect your command coming in. in southeast d.c., where next to a tost.eigth street. the ramp is closed and you have to detour tioo m street. the southeast freeway section is shut down. these closures are expected to last anywhere from 18-20 months which is part of the 11th street bridge project that has been going on for some time in the district. we have seen several different closures. if you are going to head out of the city this morning or the evening rush hour you'll need to use the outbound 695 ramp.

>> you pence -- you can also see the snow coming down. it is not the same conditions to our south. we are two days away from kickoff for a super bowl 47. >> fans have been pouring into the big easy all week long and john gonzalez is keeping tabs on which teams have the better fan turnout. >> good morning, it is the friday before the big game in this city that truly does not sleep. things are still going on here in the french quarter and people are out and about i have lost my necktie and i lostbeads. these are the actual gloves that the baltimore ravens will be wearing on sunday. this city is preparing for a busy next couple of days. not only do we have the super bowl sunday, but we also have mardi gras. there is a lot of police

activity and metal barriers are developed for the big mardi gras parade after the superbowl. we spent time on bourbon street last night and it is quite impressive to see how many ravens of fans are in this city right now. the city is really dressed in black and purple. it is impressive to see how more -- how many of these fans traveled from baltimore. if they are looking for tickets, they will pay about $1,300 apiece. i am on canal street, john gonzales, abc 7 news. >> that is a rough life for him down there. >> keep the good times rolling. >> 30 degrees out at 6:37. >> the snow was really starting to come down in many parts of our area. this is a look at silver spring/georgia avenue and you can see the northbound lanes. we will check in with do

>> that is a live picture out of woodbridge va., where the snow continues to come down. it is picking up pretty heavy and the d.c. area but will come to an end for leesburg and dollars and manassas. we will have over to doug hill for the latest.

>> this note is acting as we expected. it will move out on time. we might get up to 1 inch in some spots. southern maryland is out of the advisory but the whole metro extended area is under the advisory until 10:00 this morning. the snow is rapidly moving from west to east. the brighter, a darker blue area are the heavier the bands. off to the west, it has ended already and temperatures will drop below freezing in many areas and the snow falling helps to drop the temperature is more. it looks like the snow will be coming to an end and it will be windy through the day with partly cloudy skies and the temperature well below average in the mid-30's. >> this is the beltway at river road and you can see the volume is not that republic of the snow

cover. the traffic is moving slowly even though the volume of traffic is not enough to slow you down. fortunately, people have seen this know and are slowing down so give yourself extra time this morning. you will find delays on rose even though the volume is not as heavy as it normally is. it is still pretty slow on the beltway. 270 at father hurley boulevard, look at the delays in the snow. >> it is the 6:42 and 29 degrees. coming out of turkey, an explosion outside the u.s. embassy there. >>

>> welcome back at 6:44 and we are dealing with significant breaking news from overseas, a big explosion outside the u.s. embassy in turkey. >> we just got a picture in the newsroom. witnesses on the same are telling several news agencies that this appears to be the entrance to the u.s. embassy in turkey us inankara. there are unconfirmed reports that there are several injuries but we know that ambulances were headed to the scene. this is the entrance to the visa office at the embassy and we are trying to get more details and we will give you an update in a few minutes. >> we will check back with you shortly to get the latest. mike allen is joining me. it's good to see you, happy

friday. >> happy february. >> a big change of the guard at the state department -- secretary of state hillary clinton is bidding farewell? >> this is the last day to -- she will walk up to the seventh floor of the state department as madame secretary. she says she will think about what she will do. she is the big about doing a memoir and will probably engage in some nonprofit group either with her husband or do something with chelsea clinton. she has done a very intentional goodbye to our. -- tour. she is trying to tie a bow around her record in case she runs for something else again. she is president obama's most

popular cabinet member. >> she had an incredible approval rating. how do things look for her four years ahead? >> no one else who wants to run the president in 2016 cannot decide until they know what she will do. secretary clinton is being used by a lot of democratic and liberal groups on-line. some viewers have gotten e- mails and they want to send a thank-you to hillary clinton. this enables these democratic or liberal groups to compile e-mail addresses of people who are friendly to their causes. on her way out, secretary clinton is giving to the democrats on line and over the

years, it seems fair. >> we will keep an eye on what happens with hillary clinton over the next four years. it looks like john kerry's first day in office will be off to a busy start with this potential embassy bombing. we certainly appreciate you stopping by. >> hillary clinton will be known for promoting women. >> we will keep an eye on the breaking news coming in from turkey as well. let's check in with jacqui jeras. >> you can see the snow coming down really well in southeast washington. this is the burst that is coming through. the worst of this will be over and we will not see much more. we've got half an engine now in sterling, virginia.

doug hill has latest. >> all across the area, there are bands of snow coming through. at the naval academy in annapolis, they have a light coating. on the radar, we have been tracking the bands of snow. you see the back edge is getting closer to the western side. it will get windy after the snow is corn. -- after the snow is gone. temperatures are plenty cold and we expected to be at or below freezing in many areas at once the system moves out, it will get plenty windy combined with cold temperatures. the wind chill will be in the teens a good portion of this afternoon. it will become windier with sunshine and the temperature was

stay cold. it will be quiet until saturday night into sunday morning and we could get some light snow at that time and temperatures will be and the 40's. >> we will start with a look at 270/germantown which is moving slowly toward the beltway. it is pretty slow or there was some snow in the roadway on the bellboy. >> 6:50 and 28 degrees and the friday express's coming up. >> we will tell you what you need to know before you walk out the door. leave yourself extra

>> ankara. at least two people have been killed. you are looking live a turkish

news station with live reports of the coverage going on. ambulances and fire trucks are headed to the scene and witnesses say there was a loud explosion at the american embassy near the visa office . will follow this story and tell you the latest developments. >> some possible traffic tieups this morning and during this evening's rush hour. we have the snow but also you can see the ramp is closed here affecting people in outbound areas of the city in closing the ramp to pennsylvania avenue and eastbound section of the s.e./southwest freeway from 395 to pennsylvania poave. >> it is the friday before the big game.

downtown new orleans is jam packed this morning with fans from around the country especially from san francisco and baltimore. it is impressive how many people have actually traveled to the big easy from maryland. the city is also showing a change with police presence more than we saw this week. not only is no orleans preparing for the super bowl sunday but mardi gras a few days after that. >> thanks so much. >> it could be tough getting around using metro this weekend. read line trains are single tracking this weekend. >> maya angelou will take part in discussions at the native american museum. it is open to the public.

>> today, the washington auto show opens and for more information on these stories visit our website, wjla.com. >> let's check in with traffic. >> the snow is never a good thing at this hour of the morning. >> take a look of this shot look270 at father hurley boulevard. this is from 109 all the way to the beltway so this will be a tough ride. >> the snow is coming to an end as we speak. on the western beltway but maybe a half an hour more for the rest. >> before we go, we want to say happy birthday to a special " good morning we gotta sell the car.

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